Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-25
A ~8alLLlANTy lRRMGSMENT.

last Saturday, ought to satisfy intelligent
persons not only of the malignity of the
partisanship of that sheet, but also OF the
insinceIity of its professions of desire that
anything should be accomplished for the
loyal cause in Utah under Democratic
Administration The falsity and per-
version embodied in the charges are not
at all complimentary to the intelligence
OF its readers, for every allegation is
either utterly false or so construed as to
warrant the presumption of the
writer's ignorance, or the rating
OF the people he addresses at
an intellectual standard scarcely above
that of idiotcy. In regard to Mr.. Man
ning's "handling of the silver question:"
while it was not what was expected from
Democratic Administration, it has GER
tainly been an improvement upon the
record of any Republican which preceded
him. He has exceeded the minimum
limit of coinage upwards of half a mil
lion, while under his immediate prede-
cessor it fell short nearly that SUN of the
smallest amount which should be coined
under the law. 1t was through the ac-
ton OF Mr.. Manning chat the issue of
greenbacks of small denominations Was
suspended to increase the room for the
circulation of silver coin. The
assertion that Secretary Villas tele-
graphed to San Francisco to ascer-
tain some traveller en- route through
Central America would not carry the U.
S. mails as personal baggage, is an un-
mitigated falsehood, cut out of whole
cloth by the Republican organ writer.
The assertion that the bankers or mer-
chants of the West cannot purchase sill
yer dollars except by direct application
10 the Treasury Department at Washing
ton is without the slightest foundation
and such feeble falsehood as could only
have originated in the Uranium of an i'm
becile. Ii the writer does not know that
an order has been issued to allow all
persons to use timber from the public
lands for building and fencing, ETC., and
that the timber agents have been in
instructed to the effect that the law was
only contemplated to prevent the strip
ping OF the timber lands by corporations
and others who have for years been
monopolizing the timber to the ex-
lusion of actual settlers, the writer
had better inform himself before
criticising the Administration upon
that issue. That the action of Secretary
Whitney in refusing to accept war
steamer, contracted for by notorious Re-
publican swindler from an equally dis
honest Republican Secretary of the Navy,
until the loose requirements of the con-
tract were fulfilled, is utilized as rebuke
to the Administration, is an indication
that the writer is an idiot or that he be-
lieves he is addressing himself to
persons of that mental calibre. The
above are fair samples of the charges
contained in the Republican organ in its
article ironically captioned "a Brilliant
i
hood and perversion from beginning to
end. Its evident malignaty, coupled
with its senseless falsehood and perver-
sion of facts, however, render it harmless
and is calculated to inspire pity for
the unfortunate writer, rather than
Indignation at the bitterly parti-
san spirit which actuated him.
The Republican organ has been equally
unfortunate in its treatment of the Nor
mon question. Its radicalism and pal
pably selfish positions it has assumed
upon all questions which have arisen
concerning local matters, have become so
notorious that its advocacy OF a measure
is the certain precursor OF its defeat at
Washington. Copies of the paper have
been the best and most effective docu-
nentary material for Delegate Caine and
the Mormon lobbyists at the Capital.
Extracts were read from it by Caine in
his speech before the House Judic iary
Committee, and Judge BSskin in his ad-
dress had to deny that they reflected his
views or the views of the Gentle people
of Utah. To our personal knowledge the
President was for time inclined to be bi-
ased against the Gentle cause because Of
matter published in the Republican organ,
copies OF which were regularly furnished
him by Mr.. Caine while he was investi-
eating the Mormon question. 1t required
the most persistent efforts upon the part
of Democrats from this Territory to dis
abuse the Presidents mind of the impress
sion that the would-be dictator OF the
Gentiles of Utah did not represent the
views of the best element of that class
Mr.. Caine, in his speech in the House,
read copiously, and with evident effect
for his side of the question, from the col
umns of the organ, which he represented
as rejecting the sentiments of the GEN
tile people OF this Territory. Mr.. Cleve-
land was so disgusted with its con-
nective abuse of Democrats and
Mormons and the evident intent
of the organ to utilize our local
question for political purposes, that he
actually urged upon Democrat who was
interviewing him upon Utah matters the
necessity of maintaining a Democratic
paper in this Territory. The fact is, the
Republican organ, while pretending to
favor the loyal cause, has always thrown
every obstacle in its way when the meas